I've Killed More People Than You

Murder is more than taking a person's life; it's taking their value.
"You scare me," my wife said.
Usually, this is what follows some flamboyant or otherwise innocuous silliness I'm known for. This time she was serious.
Like most days, I had come home from work ready to unload all of the idiocy I had encountered during the day. But unlike most days, I didn't feel calmer when I was done venting. I felt angrier. In fact, I couldn't stop venting. My wife picked up on this and in her gentle yet firm way, she warned me about letting my frustrations turn into hatred. I paused. And that's when I said it.
"Sometimes I get so angry with people I wish they weren't alive anymore."
You'll never feel like more of a failure as a husband than making your wife afraid of you. But even in the midst of her fear, she told me exactly what I needed to hear: "You have an anger problem. And you need help."
Hatred is one of the easiest evils to ove…
"You scare me," my wife said.
Usually, this is what follows some flamboyant or otherwise innocuous silliness I'm known for. This time she was serious.
Like most days, I had come home from work ready to unload all of the idiocy I had encountered during the day. But unlike most days, I didn't feel calmer when I was done venting. I felt angrier. In fact, I couldn't stop venting. My wife picked up on this and in her gentle yet firm way, she warned me about letting my frustrations turn into hatred. I paused. And that's when I said it.
"Sometimes I get so angry with people I wish they weren't alive anymore."
You'll never feel like more of a failure as a husband than making your wife afraid of you. But even in the midst of her fear, she told me exactly what I needed to hear: "You have an anger problem. And you need help."
Hatred is one of the easiest evils to ove…